Poultry CRC: the Leading Global Research Body

According to Stock and Land Poultry CRC chief executive, Professor Mingan Choct, who accepted the award said: "This is a very satisfying award to receive, particularly at this point in the CRC's lifecycle, with a lot of people working very hard in the last five years to achieve practical outcomes for the Australian poultry industries," Professor Choct said.

Established in 2003, the Armidale-based Poultry CRC involves researchers, educators and support staff from 23 participating organisations.

The Centre's wide-ranging research programs, which focus on sustainability for the egg and chicken meat industries, make it a stand out contributor to world poultry research.

For example, in 2007 a Poultry CRC PhD student overturned a 30-year dogma that alpha-toxin caused necrotic enteritis, a disease that costs the global poultry industries an estimated $US 2 billion annually.

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